What is this?

Fardringle

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Many wireless routers can act as a wireless bridge/access point. Without more information, the unknown device could be a router acting as a bridge, it could be an actual wireless bridge, or it could be a wireless computer using connection sharing to give access to your network to the three computers.
 

fmg420

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would the router in bridge mode give and get the strongest signal out of all those mentioned?
 

ch33zw1z

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signal strength depends on what the device is, and what it can/is set to put out.
 

spidey07

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The technical name for that is Workgroup Bridge. It isn't a wireless bridge, it is a workgroup bridge - two very different modes of operation.
 

JackMDS

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Originally posted by: spidey07
The technical name for that is Workgroup Bridge. It isn't a wireless bridge, it is a workgroup bridge - two very different modes of operation.

You are right Spidey. :thumbsup:

The problem is that the D_WRT people sc*** up the description on their page concerning the instructions for Driverless Wireless Client.

They basically switched/mixed the two terms Wireless Bridge and Wireless client.

For long time I ignored it and used the right term, but then it confuses the people who goes to the page. So when I link to this specific page I use the term that the page uses. :eek: